The report by Deloitte Touche LLP, released Tuesday by TransCanada, predicts some 10,071 direct full

CALGARY — A study commissioned by TransCanada Corp. shows Ontario and Quebec among the biggest economic winners from construction of its proposed Energy East pipeline, though company CEO Russ Girling admits it will take more than rosy numbers to win public support for the $12-billion project.
The report by Deloitte Touche LLP, released Tuesday by TransCanada, predicts some 10,071 direct full-time equivalent jobs across the country will be needed to develop and build Energy East until 2018. Of that, Quebec represents cheap cruise 36 per cent and Ontario 23 per cent.
The study also found the project would add about $35.3 billion to Canada's gross domestic product in the development and construction phase and over the 40-year life of the project. As well, it's expected to add $10.2 billion in tax revenues at the municipal, provincial and federal levels the over that time.
"There'll be other issues with respect cheap cruise to the routing of our pipeline, impacts on landowners and other stakeholder issues that we're going to need to understand and manage our way through," Girling told reporters from Fredericton.
The 4,500-kilometre Energy East pipeline would connect up to 1.1 million barrels per day of western crude to refineries and export terminals in Quebec and New Brunswick. The proposal involves converting cheap cruise a portion of TransCanada's underused natural gas mainline to oil service and building 1,400 kilometres of new pipe from west of Montreal to Saint John, N.B.
The economic figures don't include the impact of higher Canadian crude prices that would result from being able to sell the product in lucrative overseas markets. Nor does it incorporate the lower crude costs eastern refineries may enjoy, said Deloitte's Trevor Nakka, one of the study's authors.
"In this context, the study is conservative in nature," Nakka told reporters. "It doesn't seek to extend the boundary or scope of economic impacts. cheap cruise The economic impacts are estimated to be only those related to the project itself."
Ontario is expected to see a boost of nearly $2.7 billion to its gross domestic product during construction cheap cruise and $10.3 billion over the pipeline's operation. Nakka said the big increase during the operations phase is mainly due to the large amount of electricity the 30 pump stations in the province will use.
The economic benefits to Alberta, though relatively modest initially, are expected to pick up significantly once the pipeline is operational. It is seen having a $1.7-billion boost to GDP over the next six years and then a $6.1-billion cheap cruise boost over the subsequent 40 years.
In touting the benefits of that proposal, cheap cruise TransCanada has said it expects 13,000 jobs to be created, but those figures have been questioned cheap cruise by many critics. Even U.S. President Barack Obama has said he expects the jobs created by Keystone XL to be a fraction of what TransCanada is projecting.
"What we're trying to do here is be as transparent as possible in terms of the communication of the job numbers. ... Our objective here is not to confuse anybody. It's to be as transparent cheap cruise as possible."
"We would create cheap cruise more jobs and build a better economy if we spent $12 billion on public transit and greener vehicles that reduce our oil consumption, rather than on building a pipeline that fuels climate change by deepening the world's addiction to dirty oil," Stewart said.
Environmental Defence's Adam Scott said there are other economic impacts to consider when weighing pipelines like Energy East, such as their role in enabling oilsands development — "the fastest growing source of global warming pollution in Canada."
"Pipelines moving oil from the west to the east would be among the most expansive and ambitious cheap cruise stretches of energy infrastructure in the world, and would contribute to the energy security of Canada and all of North America," he said.
"Replacing higher-cost foreign crude with lower-cost Canadian crude for refineries in Quebec and Atlantic Canada would protect and increase job opportunities in the refinery sector and ensure a competitive fuel supply for consumers."
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